‘Carmen’ performance above expectation at Proctors By JOSEPH DALTON Special to the Times Union SCHENECTADY — No matter how familiar the opera may be, you never quite know what you’re going to get when …

Words and Music performs an ‘Evidence of Things’ art song well By JOSEPH DALTON Special to the Times Union ALBANY – Words and Music, a vocal quartet based in Washington D.C., takes its bipartite name …